Bug#335855: gnome-office: please be more specific in package description

[Filipus Klutiero]

Le mars 1, 2010 12:43:59 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> > The package description states that :
> > 
> > 	GNOME Office consists among other things of a word processor,
> > 	spreadsheet, diagram editor, database admin tool and programs
> > 	for image manipulation, vector drawing, financial accounting
> > 	and project management.
> > 
> > But I don't know which one is the word processor, what I should launch
> > in order to have a databse admin tool, and so on. So please add the
> > application name next to its function in the description. Thanks.
> 
> I don't think being that specific is necessary. If you don't know which
> application does what (and you can't infer it from its name), you can look at
> its description.
> 
> Furthermore we don't do this for e.g. gnome-core, gnome-accessibility or
> gnome-devel, and I don't think that's going to change.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio
> 
> 

The point is not that I don't understand what abiword is. The point is that the problematic package description does not tell me that gnome-office depends on abiword, as already explained. I have to look at the dependencies for that, while I'm rather tempted to use Google on "GNOME Office suite". The packages you compare with are different, using respectively:
The GNOME Desktop Environment -- essential components
The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components
The GNOME Desktop Environment -- development tools 

"The GNOME Desktop Environment" is well-known. Somebody who wouldn't know what it is would easily find it on Google. "The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components" does not tell me which accessibility components are provided, but I'm not tempted to search for "The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components" on Google, as it is not a proper noun. "GNOME Office suite" currently brings in the first results http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office - none of which talk about the same "GNOME Office suite" the description refers to. Actually, the Wikipedia article even shows that Debian uses the term with a different meaning.

And you're mixed up - what you're quoting doesn't belong to this report.

Reopen.